I block off my upstairs loft and laundry room and have double curtains on both entrances to my 900 sqft cabin...3 years ago I bought a small window air conditioner for 54 dollars that keeps my small cabin 68 degrees all day in 100 degree weather. I was at Jerry's the other day and my air conditioner now cost 350 dollars....shit is getting ridiculous. Not as bad as lumber....I live 2 miles from the mill and in the mill town they wanted 90 dollars for a half sheet of plywood....drove to town and still expensive but cost half the price...you'd think lumber was shipped here from the other side of the world...price gouging sucks.
????????????????? Wha....??????? Are you heating/chilling Dame's new house??? That's like twice so called "normal". Damn........
Apparently the Lennox unit was $6K more at cost than last year. Idk ask your brother if that's a lie..
Prolly not. I wanted a Trane (7 plus years ago) but my cousin sold me a “Tempstar”, which is supposedly a Trane with a different name (and lower price). He was trying to save me money and assured me it was simply a name issue and that it was every bit as good as a Trane. This winter it cost me $1100 for a new induction fan motor. So……you paid the price for a quality brand. Hopefully it will save you over the long haul. I won’t accept a generic brand in the future.
There is a lot of junk out there when it comes to appliances and HVAC. You used to be able to get 20-30 years out of a refrigerator and 20 /25 washer dryer. Same with furnaces. Not any more, as there needs to be parts & services availability & profit to sustain service. Now and even with digital appliances dont last near that long as parts & mfg quality don't stand up to back when.
I've found over the years that in this global economy, even the "best" or "top" brands will have one part or component that will go out. Most likely it's something they didn't manufacture themselves but instead used a 3rd party to make the part. But everything else that is connected to that inferior piece is still quality. But also, tons of people will have the exact same problem, a few of them actually know how to fix it, and out of that 2 or 3 of them will make a youtube video on how to fix it yourself Most of the time you're paying a repairperson to come to your house and fix whatever has broken, 10% is the cost is the part, and 90% of the expense is for their knowledge of how to fix it. Always check on youtube for the exact model of the product you have and the problem it has. The repair might be easier than you think. Added bonus, I always use it as a reason to buy a new tool or two, lol.
I do as much fixing as I can and yes you tube is very helpful. I took my truck through a car wash came home and noticed fuel tank door spring was sprung and wouldn't shut. Got it fixed myself by replacing spring loaded shaft.
Used to be I could have actually repaired my own furnace but they have gotten so incredibly complex and complicated with all the new "high efficiency" crap tacked on. Chock full of (usually) plastic, cheap looking crap it's almost impossible to access. Gas furnaces are far more complicated than they were 40 years ago. It's like the motorheads of my generation trying to work on the cars of today. Where do you even start.......... And you are absolutely correct about that one cheesy part or component. With our washing machine it was the motherboard. With our dishwasher it was the drain pump (plastic impeller chewed up thanks to the plastic from the recommended dishwasher soap pods). Both went out either just prior to the warranty expiring, or very, very soon after. And in both cases we had to wait several weeks for repairs because the parts houses did not keep those parts on the shelf......despite the repair guys admitting that those were the parts that went out most often in those appliances. It's a helluva racket
Sorry to hear about your problems with your shaft. I don't mean to be a dick or to rub it in, but I'm getting up in years and my spring loaded shaft is still working hard, knock on wood. barfo
"Shaft, ...dick, ...spring loaded shaft, ...rub it in, ...working hard, ...knock on wood"? C'mon Willy Johnson, surely there's a tool to repair both your organ and your joystick....and oh, don't forget to feed your anaconda.
More times than not, the problem/s I've had over the years with HVAC issues is a bad capacitor...fairly cheap and not at all hard to replace yourself instead of forking over 2-3 hundred bucks for a service call and having the technician doing it for you.
